Let's hear it for T and MBlog 6/30/2004 Post a commentWhat analog engineer doesn't enjoy the "snick-snick" of those knurled knobs on the front of an Agilent or Tektronix high-speed scope? asks Steve Ohr in on editorial in the July issue of Planet Analog magazine. Some of the world's best analog engineers have an enviable skill set when it comes to test, he says.

A quick review of DACBlog 6/28/2004 Post a commentNow that the Design Automation Conference is over, it's time for a quick look at highlights. Significant changes-and questions-emerged in design for manufacturability (DFM), electronic system-level (ESL) design, and design and verification languages.

Up, up and awayBlog 6/28/2004 Post a commentA private company punched a hole in space last week through which a flood of commercial space enterprises may gush in the coming years.

Blame the design, not the processBlog 6/28/2004 Post a commentWhen technologists at Intel Corp.'s process development center in Hillsboro, Ore., began developing a 90-nanometer process four years ago, several engineers discovered that strain on the silicon channel resulted in much larger performance gains than could be readily explained.

The alchemist's dreamBlog 6/14/2004 Post a commentThe last few months have seen the advent of more tools to transform high-level signal-processing application descriptions into real-time implementations.

Malaise will be temporaryBlog 6/14/2004 Post a commentEvents get slightly predictable when revolution is replaced by reformation and reconstruction, as the 1990s battle between ATM and Internet Protocol showed.

A Verilog coup d'etatBlog 6/7/2004 Post a commentBecause of a recent decision by the Accellera standards group, it appears that there will be two Verilog standards: IEEE 1364 (Verilog 2005) and IEEE 1800 (SystemVerilog).

A little respect, pleaseBlog 6/7/2004 Post a commentA big chunk of the industry will converge on sun-kissed San Diego this week to take in the salt air, play a little golf, peruse some new software tools and confront a few old demons.

The end of microarchitectureBlog 6/7/2004 Post a commentThe evolution of microprocessor architecture through the 1970s, 1980s and 1990s can be viewed as a process of reusing techniques first implemented in IBM mainframes in the 1960s.

Opinion: Your logic analyzer can probe those forgotten signals!Blog 6/2/2004 Post a commentLogic analysis is a powerful tool. However, the most powerful logic analyzer is useless without a sound probing connection to a system under test. If you approach the problem carefully, you'll find that you can even probe those "forgotten" signals. From eeProductCenter's Test and Measurement section, Agilent Technologies' engineers offer these pointers.

Creating a green supply chainBlog 6/1/2004 Post a commentChange in this area is inevitable.
Corporations today have a choice: We can sit back and wait to be regulated in ways that we might not like very much, or we can engage in a dialogue to understand the issues and help develop solutions that are sustainable for the communities and for business.

Extreme outsourcingBlog 6/1/2004 Post a commentRemember the days when OEMs did everything: systems, software, chips, direct sales, even materials? The corporate bingeing of the 1980s led to a massive hangover, and it took almost a decade of reengineering and downsizing to cure it.

More than a supply chainBlog 6/1/2004 Post a commentThe term supply chain seems a woefully inadequate description of the complex relationships required to bring new products to market. A chain is linear, heavy and prone to rust. The metaphor just doesn't ring true.